Dr. Paige Victorine, Psy.D. | Co-Founder

***NOTE: Dr. Victorine is only accepting referrals for assessment and consultation at this time. Please check back later for updated availability for therapy services.

Dr. Paige Victorine (she/hers) has over ten years of experience in the mental health field. As a therapist, she works with adults (college-aged and up) and couples. She primarily conducts psychological evaluations with adults (18+). 

Additionally, Dr. Victorine offers individual coaching, supervision and consultation services for mental health and related professionals seeking support with specific clinical concerns or private practice-related resources/networking support (see Professional Consultation for more information), as well as speaking engagements and trainings for areas of specialty.

 Dr. Victorine strives to provide her clients the space, skills and strategies for navigating life's challenges with intention, flexibility and acceptance so that they can get back to living more meaningful lives. Dr. Victorine maintains a trauma-informed, culturally-aware, & neurodiversity-affirming framework to create individualized treatment plans. 

 She supports clients with developing a relationship with their minds that allow them to weather emotional storms with a bit less struggling and suffering, and a lot more intention, mindful awareness, and meaning. Dr. Victorine believes that relief comes as a side effect of moving away from trying to eliminate your symptoms, and instead moving toward what gives your life meaning with those painful internal experiences along for the ride. 

Dr. Victorine integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and similar approaches such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and compassion-focused therapy, with a generous helping of related approaches, such as existential, attachment-focused, and systems perspectives to inform her treatment plans. 

Dr. Victorine specializes in working with conditions of emotional over-and-under control, those with complex trauma histories, including traumatic or invalidating family of origin or other interpersonal concerns, and individuals dealing with adjustment-related challenges connected to chronic health conditions (including autoimmune conditions, chronic pain & medically unexplained symptoms). 

Dr. V also has a particular interest in supporting neurodivergent adults, including those with suspected or late-diagnosed ADHD and/or Autism profiles. 

 She works with many individuals in high-pressure or high-stakes work environments who deal with chronic burnout, perfectionism, and anxiety (aka, "people-pleasing", "over-achievers", and the "gifted" crowds). 

Many of her clients hold security clearances in high stakes/high level roles in government and related organizations; therefore, she understands the importance of maintaining discretion when processing their career and related challenges in the context of therapy and assessment.

As a couples therapist, Dr. Victorine integrates a number of evidence-based approaches (including Gottman, ACT, DBT and Emotion-Focused Therapy) to support couples dealing with unworkable relational patterns. She specializes in high conflict couples, PTSD and complex trauma/personality disorders, premarital counseling, adjustment-related challenges following major transitions or breaches of trust, and neurodivergent couples (where one or both partners has or suspects having ADHD and/or Autism). 

She  guides her couples to a greater awareness of their interactional patterns and what started and maintains them, providing space for skill-building, values clarification and  action planning suited for many learning styles and needs.

Dr. Victorine prioritizes early diagnostic clarification from a therapeutic stance for all of her clients, in order to ensure  they are receiving the best level or type of care for their specific condition(s), and to facilitate access to necessary accommodations and/or services. Diagnostic clarification can also foster improved self-compassion as well as inform what symptoms we prioritize in treatment. She works diligently to consider the whole person in context, and the diagnostic features as guideposts rather than absolute truths or fixed labels.

Dr. Victorine has extensive experience conducting psychological evaluations for adolescents and adults with a variety of presenting concerns. At Nouveau, she primarily conducts psychological assessments for adults ages 18+ with a particular interest in complex diagnostic cases. She loves taking on challenging cases in which the client or their families have found past treatment to be ineffective or insufficient, and prides herself in developing truly individualized recommendations that orient the client and their families to specific steps of what to do next. 

Dr. Victorine strives to provide assessments that are therapeutic in nature, which necessitates a neurodiversity-affirming, culturally-aware and strengths-focused approach with a goal of supporting a more holistic view of the client. 

Her evaluations include a feedback session with the client and any members of their family or treatment team they would like involved in the process. Additional (optional) sessions are offered for further processing the findings, exploring resources and next steps in more detail, and supporting others in better understanding their loved one's experiences historically and presently. 

She is especially passionate about hard-to-spot/suspected neurodivergent profiles of Autism and ADHD and resulting/related co-occurring diagnoses, particularly in high achieving women and other members of historically marginalized and misdiagnosed groups. 

Context is critical when it comes to Dr. Victorine's approach. Using the latest, evidence-based assessment batteries and regular engagement with other professionals, she never uses a one-size-fits all approach. She is committed to understanding scores and symptoms in relation to the person and the environments they exist within, and tailors her evaluations to suit the needs and function of the individual and the referral question.

Dr. Victorine is a great fit for people who work incredibly hard--whether they see it or not-- and yet keep feeling that they're falling short of their own, or others', expectations. 

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Dr. Victorine might be the provider for you if: 

You've spent a great deal of your life aching to be understood, even if you don't always understand yourself.

You've regularly received feedback suggesting that you're "too much," "a lot", or "overwhelming".

You're told by others you aren't "meeting your potential." You're probably harder on yourself than others are on you.

You feel like your worth is based on how productive, agreeable or successful you are- yet you never feel satisfied with what you've achieved.

You're often feeling burned out or overwhelmed yet can't seem to slow down and recharge.

 You've often felt like an imposter waiting to be discovered as a fraud.

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While she can't promise a magic cure, she is ready and willing to support you with honing the tools you already have within yourself-- and offer up a few new ones-- with the end result of clearing out the unhelpful or unworkable stuff so you have more space, energy and time to do what matters to you in a more sustainable and balanced way. 

Dr. V is authentic, deeply empathic, and real with her clients. She has lived experience with many aspects of her clinical specialties, and believes that connecting with others who share these identities can be a powerful mechanism of healing. 

 Clients appreciate her candor and her genuine and warm demeanor. 

Dr. V's client retention rates have consistently been the highest at prior group practices from the beginning of her therapy career, at or above the performance of clinicians decades further into their careers. 

Prior to co-founding Nouveau, Dr. Victorine obtained diverse clinical training, working in psychiatric inpatient, community outpatient, private practice, healthcare settings, college counseling and specialty group practice settings in Salt Lake City, Baltimore, Boston and across Northern Virginia and the DC Metro. 

Dr. Victorine has adjunct teaching and clinical supervision experience at Loyola University Maryland and George Mason University, with a particular knack for presenting on topics of clinical and personal interest to groups of students and professionals alike.

 Dr. Victorine serves as Nouveau's Director of Information & Networking, ensuring that the practice maintains a thorough referral and resource database, prioritizing strong connections with healthcare partners in the community who share Nouveau's values around the provision of integrative and trauma-informed mental healthcare. 

She completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore, an APA-accredited institution ranked among the Top 5 Psy.D. programs in the US throughout her time at Loyola. Her doctoral dissertation focused on understanding the spousal caregiver's experience of burnout and related caregiver burden following traumatic brain injury (TBI).

She completed her pre-doctoral internship (also APA-accredited) at Suffolk University's Center for Counseling, Health & Wellness in Boston, MA where she conducted short and long-term psychotherapy via telehealth during the peak of the COVID-19 lockdown. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at a well-known group practice in Arlington, VA which  specialized in comprehensive DBT services, as well as treatment for OCD and eating disorders.

 She earned her Honors Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, completing her Honors thesis on therapists' perspectives of client progress during their participation in comprehensive DBT skills group instruction.  

Outside of the office, Dr. Victorine enjoys playing fetch (yes, really!) with her two cats, honing her pottery skills at her local art studio, watching the latest true crime documentary, or searching for her next treasure for her eclectic collection at an antique shop or estate sale. 

Dr. Victorine is licensed to practice in Virginia, D.C., and via telehealth in 40+ other states and territories under PSYPACT (see map of participating states on our Home page).

Virginia License #: 0810007929

D.C. License #: PSY200001440

PSYPACT/APIT Mobility #: 13078